mismanagement
Example Sentences
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This is a common and natural wish, especially given what you say about your brother’s mismanagement of money.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
The Royal College of Psychiatrists is issuing a public apology for what it says is decades of mismanagement and misdiagnosis in the UK.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Instead, industry mismanagement and a punishing economic depression left PdVSA and its partner squabbling over payments, according to people familiar with the business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
California has taken significant steps to increase the odds of homes surviving wildfires in recent decades, in response to increasingly destructive wildfires fueled partly by global warming and a history of forest mismanagement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
“The worms never get satisfied, regardless of how much food you give them,” she said when Romanians complained about the food shortages brought on by her husband’s mismanagement.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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